Advertising photographer Willy Schneider and musician Max Brehmer live poorly but contentedly under one roof, in a studio.
When the caretaker Neumann wants to collect the rent, Willy is in a conversation with the advertising manager of the Berger Silk Syndicate, Döring.
At Herr Berger's domicile, he sees Renée Neumann, his property manager's daughter, who works as a shorthand typist in a car dealership, leaving the director's house.
Her likeness is promptly used for advertising purposes and will soon be emblazoned on all the city's posters, which makes Renée very angry and disappointed, because she really didn't expect that from her new acquaintance.
When musician Max invites his friend Willy to his performance in the Odeon Theater, old Neumann also drags his daughter there.